<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman;}</style></head><body><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Dear Colleague,</span><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"></span> </p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">We are pleased to announce the <strong>V Conference on Computational <br>Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering. COUPLED 2013</strong> <br>will be organised on 17-19 June 2013 in Ibiza, Spain. <strong>In this Conference we will <br>celebrate the 60th birthday of Eugenio Oñate.</strong></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">The previous four editions of this conference were held in the <br>islands of Santorini (Greece) on 25-28 May 2005, Ibiza (Spain) on 21-23 May <br>2007, Ischia (Italy) on 8-11 June 2009 and Kos (Greece) on 20-22 June <br>2011.</span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">The objectives of COUPLED 2013 are to present and discuss state of <br>the art, mathematical models, numerical methods and computational techniques for <br>solving coupling problems of multidisciplinary character in science and <br>engineering. The conference goal is to make step forward in the formulation and <br>solution of real life problems with a multidisciplinary vision, accounting for <br>all the complex couplings involved in the physical description of the problem. <br></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">The conference will be included as one of the Thematic Conferences of <br>the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences <br>(<strong>ECCOMAS</strong>). It will also be supported by other scientific organizations in <br>Europe and worldwide including the <br>International Association for Computational Mechanics <br>(<strong>IACM</strong>).</span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span></strong></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Key Date: </span></strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">The deadline for presenting a one page abstract is <strong>October29, <br>2012.<br><br></strong></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Further information is available at <a href="http://congress.cimne.com/coupled2013/" target="_blank">http://congress.cimne.com/coupled2013/</a></span></strong><strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><br><br></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">We kindly invite you to mark the conference dates in your Agenda. <br>Please, inform other colleagues who might be interested in attending the <br>conference. </span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">We thank you for your cooperation and look forward to welcoming you <br>in Ibiza in June 2013.</span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Best regards,<br>Sergio Idelsohn<br>Manolis Papadrakakis <br></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Bernhard Schrefler<br><em>Conference <br>Chairmen</em></span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial" size="2;"></span> </div><br><br></body></html>